ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 71
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1986 - SECT 71
71 . Environmental protection directions, issue and effect of
(1) Subject to this
section, the CEO may —
(a) if
the CEO is satisfied that pollution, material environmental harm or serious
environmental harm is occurring or is likely to occur; and
(b) with
the approval of the Minister,
direct by radio
broadcast or in such other manner as the CEO considers expedient that —
(c) the
carrying on of any specified industry, trade or activity be prohibited; or
(d) any
specified industry, trade or activity be carried on subject to specified
restrictions,
in a specified part of
the State and during a specified period (whether definite or indefinite) or at
a specified time.
(2) The CEO may
—
(a) with
the approval of the Minister, amend; or
(b)
revoke,
a direction given
under subsection (1) in the same manner as that in which that direction was
given.
(3) A direction given
under subsection (1) by radio broadcast shall be repeated by radio broadcast
at least once on every day following the day on which that direction was given
until that direction —
(a) is
revoked under subsection (2); or
(b) is
published in the Gazette under subsection (4),
whichever is the
sooner.
(4) The CEO shall, if
the period in respect of which a direction is given under subsection (1)
exceeds 3 days, cause that direction to be published in the Gazette .
(5) A person who
carries on a specified industry, trade or activity in contravention of a
direction given under subsection (1) commits an offence.
(6) In this section
—
specified means specified in the relevant
direction given under subsection (1).
[Section 71 amended: No. 54 of 2003 s. 49 and
140(2); No. 40 of 2020 s. 111(1).]